Territory



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BROWN, GRAND FORKS, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

HANDA-ANVIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,195, dated February28, 1882, Application filed December 13, 1881. (NomodeL) To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BROWN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks andTerritory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful improvementsin the sharpening of plowshares by the device invented by me-a HandPlow-Anvil and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters orfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a device for the sharpeningofplowshares, bywhich plowshares can be drawn out or sharpened in the field Where used,obviating the necessity of taking the share from the plow and carryingit for repair or sharpening to the farm-house or.

. smithy. By my device, when the plowshare needs drawing out orsharpening all that is' necessary is to turn the plow on its side, placethe 'dulledshare on the hand plow-anvil, and bya few blows of a hammerrestore it to its original sharpness. Being light, the plowman canreadily carry it on his person or on the plow. It is of that form whichso readily fits the hand that its use is easy to any person capable ofmanaging a plow. I attain these objects by the device illustrated by theaccompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of thedevice, and Fig. 2 a vertical section thereof.

The device as represented by the above drawings may be made entirely ofiron or steel, or of part wood and part metal, or of wrought-ironhardened, or cast-iron with steel or chilled face, and, as representedin the drawings,in that shape or form easy to hold in the hand 7 and toapply to the share without detaching said share from the plow whenneeded to be drawn out or sharpened.

The device consists of metal or metal and wood, of theform representedin the drawings, a being a reduced end by which the hand plow-anvil isto be held with the hand, and has a broadened face, b, which is to beplaced against the share to be sharpened. The face orbroadened end ispreferably made slightly rounding or curved, (shown as c.)

I am aware that prior to lnyinvention plowshares and other metallictools have been drawn out by being laid upon other pieces of metal andthen hammered. I therefore do not claim this application, broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The improved hand-anvil herein described, as and for the purposes setforth.

-\V1LLIAM H. BROWN.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. WALSH, STEPHEN (JoLLINs.

